The younger a child can start taking Piano Lessons, the better!
We teach the whole population of children including those with diagnosed disabilities;
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We teach the whole population of children including those with diagnosed disabilities;
http://pianolessonsorangecountyca.blogspot.com/
On the Internet a caring parent does not have to search too far to see the direct relationship between taking Piano Lessons and a child greatly improving their academic skills at school.
According to many researchers including the University of Irvine, California and the University of Minnesota and Wisconsin, there are numerous peer reviewed studies which validate music, specifically Piano Lessons organizes the brain in such a fashion that children can overwhelming sort through analytical problems with tremendous confidence. A friend of mine is a Jazz Pianist in her 60's and recently mentioned to me that playing the Piano is one of the few things in life someone can do and it engages both the right and left brain, meaning the creative and analytical portions of the brain work together.
Here is what the experts have recorded in their findings;
"In a study released in 2000, second graders from a low income school in Los Angeles were given eight months of piano keyboard training, as well as time playing with newly designed music software. The result? These students, taking the Stanford 9 Math Test, went from scoring in the 30th to the 65th percentile. These second graders were performing sixth grade math. An interesting finding given the TIMMS results of 1998."
(Neurological Research, March 15, 1999; Gordon Shaw, Ph.D, University Of California, Irvine)
"A related study by University of Wisconsin Professor, Dr. Frances Rauscher published in 1997 in the Scientific Journal Neurological Research showed that children involved with keyboard instruction at an early age showed significantly enhanced abstract reasoning abilities, critical to success in science and complex math.
After learning about this research, the Wisconsin School District of Kettle Moraine wanted to see how this concept would work in the real world. They started a program that replicated the Rauscher study, using kindergarten students and group piano keyboard instruction. At the end of the school year, students in classes that had received piano keyboard instruction outscored those who received no keyboard instruction by 46 percent! The program has since expanded to K through 6 students across the entire district.
The main point here is the students were not taught math using music they were taught music. Bottom line, it was the process of learning music and taking lessons that helped improve their math skills." (Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2000)
In addition there is an interesting connection between applicants in Medical School and those who are accepted and had taken Piano Lessons as a child. "
"Music
majors are the most likely group of college graduates to be admitted to Medical School. Physician and biologist Lewis Thomas studied the
undergraduate majors of medical school applicants. Thomas reported in his findings that 66
percent of music majors who applied to Medical School were admitted, the
highest percentage of any group. For comparison, (44 percent) of
biochemistry majors were admitted. Furthermore, a study of 7,500 university
students revealed that Music Majors scored the highest reading scores
among all majors including English, Biology, Chemistry and Math."
Sources:
“The Comparative Academic Abilities of Students in Education and in
Other Areas of a Multi-focus University,” Peter H. Wood, ERIC Document
No. ED327480
"A ten-year study, tracking more than 25,000 students, shows that music-making improves test scores. Regardless of socioeconomic background, music-making students get higher marks in standardized tests than those who had no music involvement. The test scores studied were not only standardized tests, such as the SAT, but also in reading proficiency exams."
Source: Dr. James Catterall, UCLA, 1997
Below are a few additional resources which give valuable information concerning classical music and results not only with children but also with mice in a controlled lab setting.
Mr. Art Scott has been teaching private Piano Lessons here in Orange County since 1981 and the East Coast he taught from 1969-1980. He holds a Bachelor degree in Music Education from Liberty University and is currently finishing a Masters in Counseling from Walden University.
"Every Child Deserves a Music Education"
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